tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 19 21:28:26 1998
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Re: KLBC: question types
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: question types
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:10:17 -0500
>> >At 16:26 98-02-27 -0800, HovqIj wrote:
>>
>> >}"Did he hit the officer or the child?"
>> >}This is neither a yes/no-question nor does it have an interrogative.
So,
>> >}do I need the {-'a'}?
>> >}{yaS puq ghap qIp}
>> >}I don't like the first one. It's not clear that it is a question.
>> >}{yaS puq ghap qIp'a'}
>> >
>> >}Maybe {yaS puq ghap qIp. 'Iv qIp?} - "He hit the officer or the child.
>> >}Whom did he hit?" would be better.
From: William H. Martin <[email protected]>
>yaS puq ghap qIpbogh yIngu'!
yaS vIngu' 'e' vIwIv. *tlha'a* HoD ghaH.
Your sentence sounds to me like you're giving the listener a choice: either
identify the officer whom he hit, or identify the child whom he hit. I
chose to identify the officer, and decided not to identify the child. In
either case, both got hit.
SuStel
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